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News Babi Yar at 75—Looking Back, From the Pages of the Forverts
Nazi forces in the Soviet Union committed the Babi Yar massacre 75 years ago, over two days, on September 28 and 29. But like most of the world’s news media, the Forverts published news of the Babi Yar massacre only in 1943, when Kiev, the neighboring city, was liberated by the Red Army. A feature…
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News Babi Yar at 75: How Will Changing Ukraine Remember Infamous Nazi Atrocity?
We stand at the edge and watch a family play with a remote-controlled toy car by a playground that’s inside the ravine. A girl tosses a ball in the air as she walks past a monumental menorah and asks her grandmother, “What’s with the celebration?” as she takes note of the flowers and wreaths placed…
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Breaking News Joseph Harmatz, Leader of Jewish ‘Avengers’ of Nazis, Dies at 91
— Joseph Harmatz, a Holocaust survivor who led a group of Jews seeking to kill Germans in revenge for the Holocaust, died. Harmatz’ death was confirmed on Monday by his son, Ronel, according to the Associated Press. Harmatz was 91. He was a leader of the Jewish “Avengers,” or “HaNokmim” in Hebrew, a group of approximately 50…
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News On Babi Yar’s 75th Anniversary, a Jew Joins Forces With Ukraine’s Far Right
This year’s commemoration of the Babi Yar massacre—the Nazis’ mass shooting of more than 33,000 Jews at a ravine in northwest Kiev 75 years ago—comes at a critical time: as Ukraine continues to resist Russia’s military threats and violations of its territorial sovereignty. Russia, in turn, has often justified itself and sought to delegitimize the…
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Breaking News Nazi Time Capsule From 1934 Unearthed in Present Day Poland
— Archaeologists in Poland have unearthed a Nazi time capsule circa 1934 that contained images of Adolf Hitler, newspapers and other artifacts. The archaeologists had been aware for years of the existence of the time capsule, which was buried underground, but had not been able to reach the copper cylinder container, according to The Independent. The capsule was located earlier this…
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The Schmooze BBC Weather Forecast Tells Viewers to Expect ‘Nazi Ghosts’
A BBC weather forecast in Wales recently told viewers that they could expect to encounter some “Nazi ghosts” along with a cold front in the days ahead. The subtitling of the forecast delivered by the BBC Wales presenter Sue Charles was supposed to read the “North Sea coast.” But a glitch in the automatic subtitling…
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Breaking News Donald Trump Jr. Says Media ‘Warming Up the Gas Chambers’ for Donald
The Trumps are stumbling over an insensitive Holocaust reference once again. And this time it’s Donald Trump, Jr.’s turn. Speaking on a Philadelphia talk radio interview Wednesday, Trump Jr. lashed out at the media, which, he claims, is biased in favor of Hillary Clinton. And this is how it came out: “The media has been…
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Breaking News Last Surviving Nuremberg Prosecutor Donates $10M to Holocaust Museum
(JTA “”)) — The last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg war crimes trials has donated $1 million to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington D.C. Benjamin Ferencz will donate the sum on an annual renewable basis, up to $10 million, to the museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, according to a statement by the…
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